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Division Faculty Shine at HSR&D National Conference
Ten faculty members from the division of General Internal Medicine presented at last week’s HSR&D/QUERI National Conference in Philadelphia. These faculty members presented or led workshops, posters, panels and discussions on topics of critical importance toward the health needs of our nation’s veterans. Congratulations to all the Duke faculty members who participated in this national event! …
PhRMA Foundation Post-Doc Fellowships Available
The PhRMA Foundation is currently accepting applications for its post-doctoral fellowship programs. Awards of $40,000 to $50,000 are available in the following subject areas: pharmacology/toxicology, informatics, pharmaceutics, and adherence improvement. Applications are also open for the PhRMA Foundation’s 2016 Faculty Development Award in clinical pharmacology, which will award $120,000 over two years. The application deadline …
NIH Offering R21 Pilot and Feasibility Clinical Research Grants in Kidney Diseases (due September 7)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) are funding R21 exploratory/development research grants that propose small scale or pilot and feasibility clinical and translational research studies, including epidemiological studies or clinical trials related to kidney disease research. Studies should address important clinical and translational questions and are potentially of high clinical and public health impact. These …
Faculty Spotlight: R. Morgan Bain, MD, FAAHPM
Palliative care physician R. Morgan Bain, MD, FAAHPM is the subject of this week’s faculty spotlight. Bain talks to us about directing the Duke Outpatient Palliative Care Program, meeting the emotional needs of patients new to palliative care, and how his interests in palliative care, geriatrics, and internal medicine inform each other. How long have …
Wang, Maciejewski Present Poster at Academy Health Annual Research Meeting
Congratulations to Virginia Wang, PhD, MSPH, and Matthew Maciejewski, PhD, who gave a poster presentation at the Academy Health Annual Research Meeting in Minneapolis earlier this June. The poster presentation, “Impacts of Geographic Distance to Dialysis Provider on Patient Utilization of Peritoneal Dialysis,” examined the association between distance to nearest dialysis facility services and uptake …
New Hospital Medicine Fellowship Program Available
David Gallagher, MD, associate professor medicine and Chief of the Duke Hospital Medicine Programs, has announced the creation of a Duke University Hospital Medicine fellowship program. This two-year fellowship will focus on academic development and scholarly work aimed at preparing the fellow for a future position as a leader in academic hospital medicine. The fellow …
Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation Coming to DC in December
The 8th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation will be held from December 14-15 in Washington, DC. The theme of this year’s conference will be Optimizing Personal and Population Health. This conference, which is accepting abstracts until August 20, promotes and evaluate strategies for integrating evidence-based approaches into clinical and diverse community …
Faculty Spotlight: Onyinye Iweala, MD
For this week’s faculty spotlight, we talk to Onyinye (Onyi) Iweala, MD, who looks forward to every new problem or patient complaint as an intellectual puzzle to be solved. In this interview, Iweala talks to us about the intellectual and emotional pleasures of working in internal medicine, following in the footsteps of a famous mother, …
Yancy Named Program Director for Duke Diet and Fitness Center
William Yancy, MD, MHS, will be the new program director of the Duke Diet and Fitness Center beginning July 1. Yancy is an expert voice on diet and weight loss, particularly the low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet; the low-glycemic load diet; and the low-fat, reduced calorie diet. He has also conducted extensive research on: The impact of …
Faculty Spotlight: Karen Goldstein, MD, MSPH
July will be a banner month for the subject of this week’s faculty spotlight, Karen Goldstein, MD, MSPH. In July, she will receive funding to begin a five-year research project to examine peer-support interventions for female veterans at risk for coronary disease. In this interview, Goldstein talks about her other work with female veterans, how …
NIH Announcements
- Notice of NIAMS Withdrawal from PAR-23-236 "Early-stage Biomedical Data Repositories and Knowledgebases (R24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)"
- Notice of Change to Funding Opportunity: RFA-HS-24-005 National Evaluation Center (NEC) for AHRQs Healthcare Extension Service - State-based Solutions to Healthcare Improvement (U19)
- Notice of Change to Funding Opportunity: RFA-HS-24-006 National Coordinating Center (NCC) for AHRQs Healthcare Extension Service - State-based Solutions to Healthcare Improvement (U54)
